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Monday, June 13, 2011

CONF: Migration Across the Disciplines - 30th June - 1st July 2011

A two-day interdisciplinary conference on migration organized by Tendayi Bloom and Parvati Nair, Centre for the Study of Migration, Lock Keeper's Cottage, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS

30th June - 1st July 2011 (10.30 am onwards on both days)

Few will dispute that the study of migration involves numerous possible disciplinary routes and methodologies of research. With this conference, the Centre for the Study of Migration brings together scholars, practitioners and performers from several continents. They work in the fields of: anthropology, geography, governance, languages, law, literature, media, medicine, philosophy, physics, and politics. They will be expressing themselves through traditional academic papers, through poetry, through music, through film, through photography, and through insights from their daily practice. Based physically at the heart of Britain's migration story, we will have the option of a walking tour of London's East End and a conference dinner at a local Lebanese restaurant. We hope that you will join us and help us to explore Migration Across the Disciplines.

TO RESERVE* YOUR PLACE AT THIS YEAR?S CONFERENCE, PLEASE EMAIL: events@qmul.ac.uk (and please specify whether you hope to come on Thursday?s walk, as there are limited places on the walk)

There is no registration fee, but attendees will be expected to supply their own lunch (there are numerous reasonably priced cafes in and around the campus) and pay for the conference dinner, should they wish to join.

For further details, visit http://www.qmul.ac.uk/migration/ or see the attached programme.
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Parvati Nair, BA, MA, PhD, FRSA
Professor of Hispanic Cultural Studies,
Chair of the department of Iberian and Latin American Studies, School of
Languages, Linguistics and Film and Director, Centre for the Study of
Migration, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1
4NS
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8317
e-mail: p.nair@qmul.ac.uk
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Onur Suzan Kömürcü-Nobrega
PhD Candidate Media and Communications
Goldsmiths, University of London
Fellow of the Bucerius PhD Scholarship in Migration Studies
ZEIT Foundation Hamburg, Germany
Mail: o.komurcu@gold.ac.uk
Mobile: +44 (0)753 307 0122http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/media-communications/http://www.settlingintomotion.de
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Jessica Sperling
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology
Graduate Center, City University of New York
917.797.4678jessica.sperling@gmail.com